“Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.”
— Brian Chesky

#Artist #Thinking #Entrepreneur

“In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.”
— Brian Chesky

#Organization #Needs #Culture

“Everyone’s got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.”
— Brian Chesky

#Life Changing #Two #Decision

“I think the next big thing in music, and it’s kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it’s the platform… Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.”
— Brian Chesky

#Stars #Thinking #Interesting

“Every day I would wake up and think, ‘Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.’ After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.”
— Brian Chesky

#Jobs #Thinking #Opportunity

“What I’ve been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world – it’s just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.”
— Brian Chesky

#Cities #People #Different

“Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.”
— Brian Chesky

#Passion #Culture #Way

“Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,”
— Brian Chesky

#Passion #People #Innovation

“There’s no such thing as a good or bad culture, it’s either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.”
— Brian Chesky

#Strong #Culture #May

“Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do.”

Brian Chesky
Internet Entrepreneur
Brian Joseph Chesky is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People of 2015”.

TEDx Talksr | Break The Shackles To Climb The Ladder | Smita Nair Jain | TEDxIIMRaipur | “Women empowerment for me is the power and freedom to choose my own opportunities and enhancing my capabilities to do what I really want to do.” She is one of the new generation management gurus who throws new light on corporate behavior and particularly its global aspect. She is also one of the best keynote speakers of all times. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx